Word: visitor
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With one and sometimes two Penn players off the field on penalties during a great deal of the game, the varsity had little trouble maintaining a constant threat against the visitor's goal...
...interest, concision and carrying its own weight generally were to be applied to some of the syndicated columns of random comment and discourse, the columns would be thrown out of the paper ... As for the editorial pages of the daily newspapers, it is easy to imagine that the visitor from Mars would at once assume they could be made up only of certain building blocks labeled Pegler, Sokolsky, Lawrence, Pearson...
Sunday morning, Webster called at the Parkman home and identified himself as the visitor who had stopped to remind Parkman of the appointment. The appointment had been kept; Webster said he had seen Parkman at the Medical School, (then near the present Mass. General Hospital), and had paid him $483.64, which he owed the doctor. "I told Dr. Parkman," he said, "that he hadn't discharged the mortgage; to which he replied, 'I will see to that. I will see to that.' He then went out very rapidly from the room...
Galloping about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional, Visitor Harry S. Truman, 72, told trailing newshounds why he hopes daughter Margaret, expecting a child in July, will name no boys after him: "It would be a handicap all his life. I have a nephew named after me-a sergeant in World War II*-and this name almost deviled him to death. The worst thing in the world is to have a President in the family...
Globetrotting Gossipist Leonard Lyons bumped into a recent visitor at the Swiss villa of aging (67), London-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, relayed a report on Chaplin's daughter Victoria, 5, and her musing about a sixth child imminently expected by Oona O'Neill Chaplin: "The youngster said: 'When I was in my mother's tummy, I thought my father was Spanish.' The visitor asked: 'How long did you think that?' The child said: 'Until I was born-and then I heard him speak English...